• Nélio Silva de Souza, Ana Carolina Gomes Martins, Karoline Mello de Assis, Lúcia Brandão de Oliveira, Rosiane Fátima Silveira de Abreu, Marco Antônio Araújo-Leite, Marco Antônio Orsini Neves, Nicolle Dos Santos Moraes Nunes, Victor Hugo do Vale Bastos, Júlio Guilherme Silva, and Alba Barros Souza Fernandes.
• Centro Universitário Serra dos Órgãos, Department of Physical Therapy - Teresópolis (RJ), Brazil.
• Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2021 Jun 1; 67 (5): 661-666.

ObjectiveThe aim was to investigate the acute effect of kinesthetic motor imagery of the 2-minute walk test on hemodynamic and cardiopulmonary variables in patients with heart failure.MethodsTwenty participants were recruited for the analysis of these variables before and after the execution and imagination of the 2-minute walk test, with the number of laps executed and imagined being recorded.ResultsThe main results observed showed that (1) there was no difference in the number of laps executed and imagined (p=0.41), indicating that the participants actually imagined the test and (2) the motor imagery of the 2-minute walk test immediately increased (p<0.001) the heart and respiratory rates.ConclusionThe motor imagery seems to have acute effects on the cardiopulmonary anticipatory responses of a patient with heart failure.

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